FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of TALL BONES: A Guardian Book of the MonthGrazia's Book Club's Book of the MonthThriller of the Month, Observer'Irresistible' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'Wonderfully haunting' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry'Conjuring up... Twin Peaks and Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects' Stylist'One of the most exciting debuts of the year' Sunday Express______-There is nothing like it. The way the world gets real quiet when a gator-s nearby...And then the water, suddenly boiling as that black head surfaces and the ancient reptile erupts into the air hissing like a devil-The way the crack of the rifle seems to come from deep inside Cutter. The way she feels it in her throat; she knows she-s a good killer - and yet. She is stalling--The Labasques aren-t like other families. Living in a shack out in the swamps, they scrape a living hunting down alligators and other animals just to get by. To the good people of Jacknife, Louisiana, they are trouble-
